# Report 2022-04  

## News

 - [Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System](https://www.wired.com/story/europe-police-facial-recognition-prum)
 - [FBI purchases 5,000 licenses for Babel X social media OSINT tool](https://www.fedscoop.com/babel-x-fbi-purchases-5000-licenses)
 - [Apple is Still Tracking You Without Consent](https://sneak.berlin/20220409/apple-is-still-tracking-you-without-consent)
 - [Brokers' sales of U.S. military personnel data overseas stir national security fears](https://www.cyberscoop.com/data-brokers-national-security-risk)
 - [American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA](https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracking-zignal-surveillance-cia-nsa)
 - [Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You](https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/04/28/applied-for-student-aid-online-facebook-saw-you)
 - [Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document](https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes)
 - [FBI Searched the Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/fbi-searched-the-data-of-millions-of-americans-without-warrants)

## Data Breaches

 - [Snap-on discloses data breach claimed by Conti ransomware gang](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/snap-on-discloses-data-breach-claimed-by-conti-ransomware-gang)
 - [France: CNIL fines Dedalus Biologie €1.5M following health data breach](https://www.dataguidance.com/news/france-cnil-fines-dedalus-biologie-15m-following-health)

## Paper/Report

 - [Goodbye Tracking? Impact of iOS App Tracking Transparency and Privacy Labels](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03556)
 - [Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps](https://wiscprivacy.com/papers/vca_mute.pdf)
 - [CookieEnforcer: Automated Cookie Notice Analysis and Enforcement](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04221)
 - [Your Echos are Heard: Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Amazon Smart Speaker Ecosystem](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10920)
